Inaccurate congressional maps mailed to voters for November election
According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the California were sent in November that wrong voter guides were sent about the private elections that would not be redrawn and redefined the boundaries of the congress zone. The state agency announced that it will post the information to voters will post the postcards, which will cost millions of dollars.
Foreign Minister Shirley Weber said, righteousness in voter information is necessary to maintain the trust of the people in California elections, ”he said. “We take a fast, transparent action to ensure that voters get the right information. This mis -label does not affect the proposed areas of voting, voting compasses or selection process. This is just a labeling error.
The voter guide to try to increase the number of democrats in the Congress Gov. California was sent to California voters about the proposal 50, supported by Gavin Newsom and other state democrats. In response to the state -led states, the proposal was to ensure that the number of republican in the Assembly, with the order of President Trump, to continue to put the agenda into force for the last two years.
Special election will take place on November 4, but voters will start to receive a post -vote compass in early October.
It is represented by George WhiteSidesidesides (D-Yagua Dulce), which contains the fields of San Fernando and antelope valleys, and the congress zone is incorrectly labeled as 22.
Paul Mitchell, a democratic redistribution expert who draws the new congress regions, said, “It is unfortunate to be wrong on the map in the voter guide,” he said. It is true on La district and Southern California maps, which allow people living in the region to see the proposed new congress regions correctly.
There are 23 million registered voters in California, but it is unclear whether postcards will be sent to any registered voters or to the households of registered voters. Foreign Minister’s office did not respond to the request for a comment on Tuesday evening.
Even if corrective notifications are sent to voter households rather than individual voters, in addition to the cost of printing postcards, the post -mail fee alone is likely to be millions of dollars. Special elections, which the Legislative Assembly called in August, was expected to cost taxpayers to cost 284 million dollars.
The opponents of the Offer 50 were seized on the mistake as proof that the measure was hurriedly placed on the ballot.
Amy Thoma, a spokesman for one of the campaigns that oppose the effort, said, “When politicians force the Minister of Foreign Affairs to rush to an election, mistakes need to be made.” “It is unfortunate that this costs the taxpayers for millions of dollars.”
Jessica Millan Patterson, who led the Congress Republicans’ another Anti-Mudhale 50 campaign, added that such errors are inevitable, considering how fast the ballot was written and the private election was called.
“PROP. 50 Power Grab ran so fast by greedy politicians that the outstanding mistakes were made and asked serious questions about what was missed.” “California taxpayers already pay for a special election of approximately 300 million dollars, and now they pay money to correct mistakes. California deserve transparency, not the back room policy. The secretary Weber should release the cost of removing this correction immediately.”
The campaign supporting the ballot did not respond to the requests for comments.
